Chapter 12: The Mysterious Martial Arts of the Blood Pattern Ring
He recalled the scattered essence, Shi Yan suddenly glanced at the dark red ring on his left ring finger, this strange ring named Blood Vein Ring, which came from the Blood Pond, seemed to have a great connection with the Blood Pond.
His heart skipped a beat as he suddenly recalled the scene when he first put on this Blood Pattern Ring. At that time, his spiritual energy was still very weak. The moment he put on the ring, his spiritual energy surged uncontrollably towards it, but because it was too weak, it couldn't break through the constraints of his skin, and so the spiritual energy didn't flow into the ring.
At present, he has broken through to the Threefold Heaven realm, and his body's essence has grown and condensed a lot, and can now overflow with essence...
What if the essence is injected into the ring?
Shi Yan was extremely curious in his heart, and he faintly felt that this ancient ring held secrets. Perhaps through this ring, he could understand the abnormalities within his body's acupoints.
Through the gap in the leaves, Shi Yan observed for a while and found that those Mo Family warriors were getting farther and farther away from him, and they wouldn't be back for a short time.
Shi Yan decided to give it a try!
Essence flowed slowly from the lower abdomen, accelerating rapidly, and suddenly surged into his left arm. As essence flowed at high speed, the muscles and veins in his left arm ached slightly. The essence burst forth like a broken bamboo, rushing all the way to the ring finger of his left hand, and then frantically poured into the skin under the nail.
"Hahaha!"
Essence like smoke, first from the blood vein ring surface under emerged, immediately a strand of pure essence, instantly absorbed into that ring.
The blood-patterned ring suddenly burst out with a crimson glow, and the barrier in the blood-patterned ring seemed to be suddenly torn apart. A strange thought suddenly flowed out of the blood-patterned ring, surged into Shi Yan's arm, rushed along his arm all the way to his neck, and finally charged into Shi Yan's mind.
Martial Arts - Rampage!
The thoughts released from the Blood Pattern Ring turned out to be a wave of memories, which was a mysterious martial skill. The method of cultivating this martial skill flooded into Shi Yan's mind, deeply imprinting itself in his memory.
Martial skills are the methods used by martial artists to apply their essence, and are techniques that utilize essence for attacks. Martial skills have the same levels as alchemists, divided into five levels: ordinary, mysterious, spiritual, sacred, and divine.
The division of martial arts is slightly different from the division of alchemists' levels. Alchemists are divided into seven sub-levels within each level, while martial artists only have these five levels without any sub-divisions.
High-level martial skills can maximize the utilization of a warrior's internal essence, allowing a warrior to possess extremely terrifying attack power. The higher the level of martial skills, the more exquisite the use of essence is. However, to cultivate high-level martial skills, warriors must have a corresponding realm. The higher the level of martial skills, the stricter the cultivation conditions are.
Generally speaking, the post-heaven and pre-heaven realm warriors are most suitable for cultivating mortal-level martial techniques. The human rank and hundred calamity realm warriors are suitable for cultivating mysterious level martial techniques. The earth rank and nirvana realm warriors are most suitable for cultivating spiritual level martial techniques. The heavenly rank and transcendent realm warriors are most suitable for cultivating sacred level martial techniques. As for the true god and god king realm warriors, they are best suited to cultivate divine level martial techniques.
Low-level warriors, if they forcibly practice high-level martial arts, most of them are just wasting their time.
Because the boundary and spiritual energy are not enough, it is generally difficult to successfully cultivate high-level martial skills. Even if they are barely successful, due to insufficient personal boundaries and strength, it is hard to exert the true power of high-level martial skills, which is less effective than cultivating martial skills that match one's own level.
For example, a martial artist who has reached the realm of tomorrow, even if he possesses legendary divine-level martial skills in his hands, is still a waste of heaven's resources. This is because his boundary power is too weak and it is fundamentally impossible to successfully cultivate divine-level martial skills.
Of course, if a high-ranking martial artist does not have high-ranking martial skills, but only cultivates low-ranking martial skills, it is also difficult to exert one's true strength.
If a martial artist is in the realm of a true god, but only has mortal or mysterious level techniques at their disposal, then the actual strength of this true god realm martial artist will be greatly discounted. Their own strength will be constrained by the lower-level techniques, and they can only exert about 70-80% of their true power.
In the Divine Continent, martial techniques are even more precious than the spiritual pills and medicines of alchemists. Martial techniques can be said to be the most expensive treasures on the continent. Generally speaking, martial techniques are all in the hands of various large families and forces. Some families are able to attract warriors to join them because they possess these martial techniques.
The higher the level of martial arts, the greater its value. Some high-level warriors, if they don't have a high-level martial art in hand, will be at a disadvantage in battle and feel extremely stifled, or even possibly be killed by others.
Therefore, for a high-level martial art that suits oneself, those profound martial artists can accomplish anything.
Shi Yan sat at the center of the tree leaves, slowly combing through the "Burst" martial skill in his mind. After sorting out his memories, he discovered that "Burst" was also divided into three levels, and what he had in his mind was only the first level's cultivation method. He didn't know what grade this "Burst" belonged to or whether it would suit him.
This martial skill originated from the Blood Pattern Ring, directly pouring into his mind through memory infusion, coming with a strange and unusual feeling. Moreover, its cultivation required the reversal of essence, which was vastly different from the usual methods of cultivating martial skills. Shi Yan's heart was filled with hesitation, unsure whether he should cultivate this mysterious and incomplete martial skill or not.
As one of the five major Shi families in the Merchant Alliance, the Shi family naturally has its own martial skills. The highest level of martial skill in the Shi family is the Spirit Level, and there is only one type that is considered a treasure by the head of the Shi family, Shi Jian. Currently, only one person, an old man who has reached the Earth Level, is qualified to cultivate it.
However, apart from this highest-level spiritual martial art, the Shi family also has many ordinary and mysterious level martial arts.
Shi Yan had originally planned to return to the Shi family and cultivate the ordinary and mysterious martial techniques of the Shi family with his new identity, but now the Blood Vein Ring suddenly appeared with a mysterious martial technique that he didn't know the rank or origin of, and he didn't know whether he should cultivate it or not.
He sank his face, and once again concentrated the essence into the Bloodline Seal, but found that the essence was blocked by a layer of barrier in front of the Bloodline Seal. No matter how hard he tried, the essence couldn't break through that layer of barrier. He faintly felt that there was something behind the barrier, but unfortunately, it was difficult to know since he couldn't break through.
After that layer of barrier, it is very likely that there will be more information about "violent walking", and it is highly likely to be another two-level cultivation method for "violent walking". Unfortunately, it seems that only when his spiritual energy reaches a certain level can he break through the barrier.
Helpless, Shi Yan recalled the essence of the Blood Vein Ring and once again hesitated after sorting out his martial skills in his memory.
Do you want to cultivate?
In the dark eyes, a glimmer of light flickered. Wrapped in leaves, the expression on Shi Yan's face was uncertain. After a long time, he decided to try it out and see what changes would occur in his body as he cultivated this "Violent Walk" for the first time.
Essence slowly flows towards the Giant Bone Cave, after arriving at the Giant Bone Cave, the stone rock injects the essence into the Giant Bone Cave according to the first layer of "violent rotation" method. The Giant Bone Cave suddenly rotates violently, and the negative emotions such as resentment, despair, and madness that have been accumulated in the Giant Bone Cave are suddenly triggered, transforming into a force that overflows and begins to change the muscles, bones, and blood around the Giant Bone Cave.
Sharp pain followed!
The flesh in that area of the giant bone cave suddenly contracted, and the muscles seemed to tense up instantly.
Shi Yan's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly reversed the flow of his vital energy. He felt a tearing pain spreading throughout his body as his vital energy reversed several inches. Shi Yan gritted his teeth and forced it back up again. Suddenly, his vital energy surged like a ferocious beast, sweeping past the Giant Bone Hole and rushing towards the Shoulder Integrity Hole.
The essence gathered at the Jianzheng hole, and with the same method of rotation, the hidden resentment, despair, and violent anger in the Jianzheng hole were triggered again. Shi Yan felt that the blood and flesh in that area suddenly contracted, and a faint white mist overflowed from the pores on his shoulders. The grayish-white mist was mixed with emotions such as despair and hatred, which was terrifying!
Jīng yuán yòu cì nì liú, shí yán yòu bèi téng tòng yù liè, é tou lěng hàn shèn shèn, jiù lián bèi jǐ dōu shī tòu le.
Extremely painful!
Gritting his teeth, the crazy side of Shi Yan's bones burst out, disregarding the pain in his arm. He continued to urge the essence in his body and charged towards the Wuli Hole again...
After an unknown period of time, Shi Yan's primordial spirit, suppressing the pain that made him want to scream, rushed from the Giant Bone Hole towards the Yang Chi Hole on his wrist. The various negative forces in the meridians of his right arm seemed to have been triggered.
He gazed intently and found that the muscles on his right arm had shrunk, becoming leaner by a large margin. A hazy grey-white mist lingered around his arm, from which all sorts of resentment, despair, and terror emanated.
Just looking at it seems to be able to affect people's minds and make them feel fearful.
A surge of energy, like a river bursting its banks, mixed with all sorts of negative emotions, churned in his arm. Shi Yan felt as if his right arm had infinite power and an irrepressible urge to explode.
Deep down, a violent and bloodthirsty idea suddenly burst out!
Shi Yan was panting, his eyes gleaming with a fierce light, as he searched for his target among the leaves like a wolf. He wished to crush anyone who appeared before him into powder with the strength of his right arm, beating them until they were battered and bruised, their flesh and blood mangled beyond recognition, only then would he feel satisfied.
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After a while, two figures cursed and slowly walked from the front, they were two Mo family warriors. After searching in other directions without success, the two were dispatched by Mo Yan Yu to this area.
"That little bastard has run off somewhere, if I see him, I'll cut his head off! Damn it, my old flame is still waiting for me at the Merchant Alliance, and I've wasted so much time here for nothing!" A tall and sturdy warrior with a coarse and long mustache cursed loudly.
"Zheng Tie, be careful, that little guy killed four of us, he's not an easy opponent to deal with. He eats more in one meal than the two of us combined, this kid is a bit strange, don't let your guard down." Another warrior was also on high alert, constantly looking around while walking, clearly being much more cautious.
"Don't worry, you and I are both in the Second Heaven Realm. We'll be together again soon. If that little bastard dares to show his face, he's just asking for death. Hmph! The sooner we take care of him, the sooner we can leave this godforsaken place. I'm sick of it here! I want a woman! I need a woman!" Zheng Tie, the martial artist, seemed to have gone mad with desire and began bellowing loudly in the forest.
"Heh heh, miss is also a woman..." The cautious warrior whispered with a sly smile.
"Haha, the young lady is indeed a woman, but we're not worthy of enjoying her. I see Master Kalu has been actively looking for a mistress lately, wonder if he'll have the chance to get intimate with her. That face, that butt... who knows which lucky bastard will get to enjoy her? Unfortunately, our status is too low, and it's unlikely we'll have a chance in this lifetime."
Zheng Tie lowered his voice, a lewd smile hanging on his face, as if secretly fantasizing about something. When he thought of the exciting part, he suddenly thrust his lower body forward and burst out laughing twice.
"Stop dreaming, miss has a fiancé already. Ling Shaofeng is not someone to be trifled with. If he finds out you have a crush on miss, you're dead for sure!"
When he mentioned Ling Shaofeng, Zheng Tie's face changed, and he muttered: "That kid is very evil, it's said that he's almost reached the realm of human cultivation. I've seen him kill people, his methods are cruel beyond your imagination. If Kalu encounters Ling Shaofeng, it's likely to be a dead end for him too. We should really be careful, in case that kid finds out what we're saying..."
Zheng Tieren couldn't help but shudder at the mention of Mo Yu's fiancé.
Two men were talking in low voices about Ling Shaofeng, their faces not looking very good, and they gradually walked towards the location of Shi Yan, completely unaware that hidden among the dense leaves above their heads was Shi Yan, this bloodthirsty beast.
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